Anthropologists Quote by Aleksandra Mir

Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things…

— Aleksandra Mir

I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

— Aleksandra Mir

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I…

— Aleksandra Mir

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

— Aleksandra Mir

"Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions for years…

— Aleksandra Mir

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

— Aleksandra Mir

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am…

— Aleksandra Mir

You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.

— Aleksandra Mir

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the…

— Aleksandra Mir

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most…

— Aleksandra Mir

I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear…

— Aleksandra Mir

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

— Aleksandra Mir